Sewing Circle Letters Spark Family Dilemma in Boston Post
The Sewing Circle column opens a debate on mothers in law and aging parents, with readers like DIXIE SOUTH and MOTHER OF FIVE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS arguing about family duty, support, and home life. The discourse questions whether grown children should fund older parents and how to balance harmony between wives, mothers, and grown children.
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Dixie South
Dear Loving Daughter Letter to Fond Mother
A loving daughter laments a mother placed in a home, recounting four years of devoted care since the mother's death nine months ago. She expresses heartbreak over being sidelined in the family, prays for the elderly mother, and vows to remember their bond and wish to restore it.
A Lesson From Family Strife In A Grandma’s House
A reader laments Outcast Mother's writing on leaving home to a son and his wife. She recalls a widowed mother who jealously tried to separate newlyweds, forcing separate rooms despite money to live elsewhere. The letter argues brides should ensure independence to avoid family quarrels and jealousy. HOPE.
Dear Sewing Circle In answer to WY Z I would say
A fragmentary note reads as a reply to WY Z about an unidentified subject. The text hints at a personal or social exchange but provides no clear event, date, or outcome. The incomplete message suggests expectation of further clarification or continuation.
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Sewing Circle
WY. Z
Parents Should Teach Truths Of Life To Children
The letter argues parents should answer a child’s questions about life honestly and simply. A wise mother builds confidence, guiding inquiry to prevent seeking information from unreliable sources and keeping children from straying into “scientific nastiness.” Sophia.
Loving Mother Letter Sparks Pension Discussion
A widow writes a letter claiming she secured old age poverty insurance by forcing her sons to vow lifelong bachelorhood while she lives. The missive grows from debates on whether widowed mothers should receive pensions, signaling a pension policy controversy.
Loving Mother or selfish example of motherhood seeks marriage guidance
A reader questions a mother’s claim of selfless motherhood criticizing her for teaching sons that their primary duty is to her. The letter argues true motherhood means enabling sons to pursue themselves, suggesting lifelong singleness condemns them to loveless lives unless aligned with art or science and contemplates the mother’s legacy after her death.
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Sewing Circle
Danderine promises glossy hair and dandruff relief
A 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine is advertised to erase dandruff within minutes and stimulate new hair growth after weeks. The copy claims the solution makes dull hair light and full, easy to apply with a cloth, and usable by any shopper at drug stores or toilet counters.
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Knowlton
New England Girl Pianist Seeks Boston Ambition
A girl pianist from a New England country town writes about her aim to move to Boston to be near major musical happenings. She asks other girls who came to the city penniless and friendless how they found success and fortune in the field.
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New England
Boston
Boston Dream or Bust for Country Village Musicians
A letter from EXPERIENCED describes young women from country towns arriving in Boston to pursue music careers. She notes harsh realities, with many working as waitresses or clerks and few achieving success as musicians due to stiff competition. She warns newcomers to learn bed making or cooking to survive and suggests rooms and scarce gowns illustrate the struggle.
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Boston
Lucky One of the Lucky Ones Warns Country Girls of City Ambition
A singer in the city recounts earning ten dollars weekly, paying one fifty for half a room, four dollars for food, leaving four fifty for clothing and travel. She notes most surplus supports another girl’s room rent and warns city fame and fortune are slow to reward aspiring musicians from small towns.
Sewing Circle Letters Highlighted in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post features some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader opinions, anecdotes, and community insights into craft, fashion, and local clubs.
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Sunday Post
Simple Old World Dessert And Dinner Menu From Area Recipes
A collection of kitchen instructions features suet and fig bake, bread crumb soak, eggs and sugar mix, steamed pudding with a creamy yolk sauce, and a macaroni dish with tomatoes and pork chops. Additional recipes include a chocolate milk frosting and a vanilla cream frosting, credited to Mrs Elizabeth Thompson, Mrs T A Johnson Jr, and Mrs Henry Worden from North Leominster Welchville and Greenfield.
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Main Street
North
Leominster
T. A. Johnson, JR
Welchvile, Me
Henry Worden
Greenfield
Mass
Poems of Sally in Our Alley
A nostalgic ballad framed as a lover's vow to Sally in the alley. The speaker laments mischief with his master, plans marriage after seven years, and imagines wealth saved to woo Sally as the chorus proclaims she is the darling of his heart. The verse blends flirtation, churchyard defiance, and future marriage.
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Sally
Drest
Love and Luxury in a Lovelorn Letter
Dear Miss Champagne, a young woman near 18 asks if she can marry a poor but virtuous man. The columnist says happiness depends on her choices, love, sacrifice, and tolerance for luxury, noting many have been happy or miserable, and urges waiting until at least age three years older.
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Miss Champagne
Daly Poem Explores Simple Dress's Alluring Charm
The poem celebrates a plain polka dot gown whose simple beauty outshines luxury fabrics. It revels in the effect of a beloved wearer's presence, linking emotion to a blue and white dress stamped on the mind like a flame. The verse traces dizzy romantic joy as love resides beside the wearer.
Industrial Art Show At Normal Art School
An exhibition of drawings paintings and industrial art objects will be shown to parents and pupils at the Normal Art School Friday evening in the assembly hall. The works are by former pupils and the faculty.
Dear Miss Champagne Should He Call Again
A reader asks if a man should ask to visit again after a first meeting or if the woman should invite him. The columnist advises the woman to extend the invitation to learn whether lack of desire or etiquette kept him away, noting it is both partners' responsibility to initiate in such social matters.
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Miss Champagne
Hingham
Folds Cause Headache and Grip Laxative BromO Quinine
The notice mentions a product bromO quinine claimed to remove the cause of headaches and grip. It references a signature line from E. W. Grove and notes a price of 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Short Story Rules for Editorial Page
Readers are urged to review the Short Story Competition rules published on the editorial page of the Sunday Post. The notice emphasizes eligibility, submission format, deadlines, and judging criteria for this local literary contest.
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On the Way to Elmwood by Mrs. Florence Fishburne
A woman in black and a child with wild flowers board a train to Elmwood. The child admires a stranger’s roses, recalling a lost son the woman once refused to honor. At Elmwood cemetery the younger woman discovers the son’s grave and the truth emerges as she speaks of the man.
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Elmwood
Russell
Flavia Gayle
Horton
Papa
Forgiveness Asked as Family Plea Reaches Home
A damaged passage reveals a daughter asking for forgiveness and inviting her mother and a child back to the home. The elder responds with a soft, conditional demand for reconciliation, signaling a quiet family moment amid strain.
Julia Culp To Sing In Jordan Hall Recital
Miss Julia Culp the Dutch mezzo soprano, noted for recent triumphs in New York, will give a song recital in Jordan Hall on Monday afternoon February 10.
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Julia Culp
New York City
Jordan Hall
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